Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Patty would actually go to prison remained uncertain. Bailey immediately announced that he planned to appeal, and some leading lawyers felt that he had solid grounds for his motion (see box page 28). But Patty has a good deal more to worry about than her eventual fate in this case. The jury had hardly pronounced her guilty in San Francisco than Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van de Kamp announced that "she'll be brought down as soon as possible" to face an entirely different set of charges on the state level. Patty stands accused of kidnaping...
...which means that Barnaby, who has been doing this for 44 years, is also a bit uncertain as to what is going on, so don't feel too badly...
Although some Udall voters felt strongly about their decisions many more seemed uncertain...
...questions, and the amorphous mandates that Rosovsky offered have immobilized several of the panels. Frozen by uncertainty about the precise boundaries of their jurisdiction, these panels have often deferred to one another in potential areas of overlap--thus narrowing their approach all the more. Finally, the task forces remain uncertain about what kind of recommendations Rosovsky wants and find themselves torn between the abstract and the specific...
Just what can be done to the offending companies is uncertain because the legal situation is murky. U.S. law draws a sharp distinction between domestic and foreign political use of corporate money. Within the U.S., donations to politicians from a corporate treasury are clear-cut crimes?even though more than a dozen companies have confessed to engaging in such activities. But even outright bribery of foreign officials does not violate any U.S. law. It may break the laws of the countries where the bribes are passed, but some of those countries are lax in enforcing their own legal codes. Concealment...